Julian Assange's Twitter account has been restored after being deleted on the social media site for hours, with two tweets being posted.
Twitter account @JulianAssange could not be reached on the microblog platform earlier in the day, while it has not been clear if it had been suspended by the social networking service or the WikiLeaks founder, who resides in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, deleted it himself.
Neither Assange and Wikileaks, nor Twitter have commented on the account's temporary deletion.
And just like that…Julian Assange's Twitter profile is gone.#QAnon #TheStorm #poof pic.twitter.com/MlYtpHxyez
— Lisa Mei Crowley (@LisaMei62) December 25, 2017
BREAKING: WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Twitter Page Has Been Removed… Something Fishy Is Going Down🤔#FreeAssange #WikiLeaks pic.twitter.com/i39Tzeub1J
— Deplorable🤠Rāzərbak (@MediaJuggernaut) December 25, 2017
However, an archive of the WikiLeaks founder’s microblog can be easily found on the Internet.
#julianassange
— DeplorableSue (@SueCFlorida) December 25, 2017
Here is the Archive for his posts.https://t.co/TK63xkNFkY
So everyone can stop guessing what he did to get deleted.
Note its not a suspension, or a Ban.
It's a delete.
Assange launched the WikiLeaks website in 2006. Since then, the platform has released millions of classified documents from all over the world on numerous espionage practices, war crimes, torture and many other human rights violations.
In 2012, Assange applied to the Ecuadorian authorities for a political asylum for fear of being extradited to Sweden on sexual abuse allegations. On December 4, 2015, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) ruled that Assange's detention was arbitrary. The United Kingdom and Sweden refused to recognize the legitimacy of the decision or to end Assange's prosecution.
